On 1/23/06, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > > > I have a used Dell laptop that must have been modified after it was > shipped because I cannot find the proper windows driver for it. I booted > it with Knoppix, which finds and brings up the nic. Where can I look in > Knoppix to see what driver it used, so I can get a clue what windows > driver to look for? lspci and lsmod should give you the hardware listing (assuming built in NIC) and a listing of drivers. on my dell lspci gives this for the NIC: 0000:08:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) which uses the "e100" drvier which lsmod reports. Raymond > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060123/24bc666a/attachment.htm